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Kerala: Congress stages hunger strike seeking rice procurement price for f
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
As rest of the Kerala celebrates Onam, Congress MP K Suresh and leaders from Kuttanad in Alappuzha are observing a hunger strike outside the secretariat in solidarity with farmers protesting for allegedly not getting the price of paddy procured from them.
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Farmers protest in Karnataka's Mandya over release of Cauvery water to Tam
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Farmers in Karnataka's Mandya are staging a protest a day after the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) passed an interim order asking Karnataka to release 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily for the next 15 days till September 2.
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Farmers protest in Sangrur; Ambala police tightens security along Punjab b
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Farmers under the aegis of Bhartiya Kisan Ekta are holding a protest outside the Longowal Police station in Punjab’s Sangrur district in support of their demand for compensation for losses caused by floods and for the enactment of a law concerning Minimum Support Price (MSP)
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Maharashtra: Onion farmers stage ‘rasta roko’ agitation in Nashik over 40
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Under the aegis of the farmers union Shetkari Saghtana, Onion farmers staged a ‘rasta roko’ agitation in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Monday against the Central government’s decision to impose a 40 per cent export duty on the kitchen staple.
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"Foreigner's version should not be taken seriously": Members of parliament
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Days after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged that the BJP-led central government threatened to shut down Twitter in India and have its employees raided at the height of the farmers' protest in 2020, the Parliamentary Panel for Communication and Information Technology on Thursday refu
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Farmers handcuffed while being taken to Telangana court sparks outrage
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The arrest and handcuffing of farmers who were protesting against the acquisition of their land for the Regional Ring Road (RRR) project in the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district sparked a wave of political outrage.
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"No reason for Jack Dorsey to lie," says Kapil Sibal on former Twitter CEO
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"First of all, I would like to know, why would Jack Dorsey make such a statement. Rajeev Chandrasekhar says that this is a lie. Why would he tell a lie? There is no reason for Jack Dorsey to tell a lie that they threatened Twitter when the protests were going on, that they would shut their o
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"That's why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account": Congress leader V
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"The statement of Twitter CEO is totally alarming and shocking for all of us. Entire government machinery is pressurising Twitter CEO to suppress and shut the opposition's voice. That is why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account," Venugopal said.
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Govt of India must have made such attempts: Rakesh Tikait on Dorsey's "pre
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"We had information that the kind of reach on Facebook and Twitter that was expected on farmers' protest, was not coming. They used to try to stop it at their level. The Head (former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) has said this clearly now. But such companies don't come under anyone's pressu
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Utter lies, blasphemous, little too rich, little too late: Entrepreneur Su
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"What Jack Dorsey has said to a television channel in the United States is nothing short of utter lies, blasphemous, and a little too rich, a little too late. Twitter must understand that it is not a sovereign nation," Entrepreneur Suhel Seth said in a video message to ANI.
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Haryana farmers protest at Delhi-Chandigarh highway, police use water cann
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The protesting farmers claimed that the government was not buying sunflower seeds at the minimum support price, and as a result, they were forced to sell their produce to private buyers at around Rs 4,000 per quintal against Rs 6,400 MSP.
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Farmers block Delhi-Chandigarh National Highway 44 in Haryana's Kurukshetr
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
farmers on Tuesday blocked National Highway-44 near Shahabad in Kurukshetra district.
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